114 

 JULY 24th, 1868. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



Arthur E. Durham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and approved. 



The following donations were announced : — 



' ' Land and Water," from the Editor ; ' ' Science Gossip," from the Publisher ; 

 "The Popular Science Review," from the Publisher ; and the "Naturalists' 

 Circular," from the Editor. 



The thanks of the club were voted to the donors. 



The following were the names of gentlemen proposed for membership : — Mr. 

 Frank Crisp, Mr. Francis R. H. Heawood, Mr. Charles Atkinson, Mr. John 

 Cousens, Mr. Y. Duer, Mr. Alexander L.Donaldson, Mr. Charles J. Leaf, F.L.S., 

 President of the Old Change Microscopical Society, and Mr. T. G. Ranee. 



The ballot then proceeded for the ten gentlemen whose names were proposed 

 at the previous meeting, and who were afterwards declared duly elected. 



The President then called upon the Secretary to read the following report of 

 the committee for the past year : — 



"Your committee have much pleasure in reporting that the success of the 

 Club continues to advance, and that the keen interest evinced by the members 

 in previous years has by no means abated during the year now brought to a 

 close. 



' ' The first among the many pleasing circumstances to which the committee 

 •would desire to draw attention is that the Council of University College have 

 most liberally renewed their permission to the Club to meet in this Library 

 during another year. This is a privilege well calculated to encourage and pro- 

 mote the objects for which the Society was originally instituted. It therefore 

 becomes a boon for which the committee and members must be equally grateful. 

 "After considerable deliberation your committee succeeded in effecting such 

 arrangements as have enabled them to commence the publication of a Quarterly 

 Journal of Proceedings, and under the editorship of Mr. HisLOP two parts of 

 the Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club have been already issued. The 

 committee trust that the form in which the Journal has appeared and the matter 

 it has contained have been generally satisfactory to the members of the Club. 

 It is hoped that the Journal may be the means of rendering absent members 

 better acquainted with the proceedings of the Club, and so aid in promoting 

 their co-operation in the cause of microscopical science. 



The Committee cannot do otherwise than allude to the Soiree of the Club 

 given in March last They feel that the success of the evening, and the grati- 

 fication afforded to th > members and their friends, were greatly due to the 

 exertions of those of our number who contributed specimens for exhibition, or 

 in other way;? aided in carrying out the general arrangements. 



The many interesting papers read during the past year are now more or less 

 fully recorded in the Journal. It is therefore unnecessary to enumerate them 

 here. 



